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Published in: 50.50Apply for a 50.50 feminist investigative journalism fellowship
We need your help to track the backlash against sexual and reproductive rights. Apply for 50.50's inaugural feminist...
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Published in: 50.50The UN secretary general isn’t yet what feminists were looking for
António Guterres showed real leadership on gender equality in 2017, but his first year in office fell short of our...
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Published in: 50.50How women migrant workers defy ‘social control’ with everyday resistance
Women migrant workers face extreme forms of social control in Saudi Arabia. One Sri Lankan woman shares her story of...
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Published in: 50.50Support independent feminist media
We are at a crucial moment for both independent media and women’s rights, and we need to be bolder and more...
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Published in: 50.50Investigative journalist Jeta Xharra: challenging politicians and patriarchy in the Balkans
Reporter Jeta Xharra talks about misogyny in journalism, and how she uses her live TV show to challenge politicians...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual harassment at work: Italy misses out on Weinstein-inspired moment of reckoning
Instead of opening a conversation about workplace sexual harassment, the Italian debate has focused on shaming those...
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Published in: 50.50Young feminists: the future belongs to us, not transnational corporations
Corporate impunity impacts young women and girls disproportionately. Young feminists must join the growing...
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Published in: 50.50‘Swept under the carpet’: violence against Zimbabwe's women journalists
Women journalists in Zimbabwe have been beaten and harassed by state security. The male-dominated media largely...
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Published in: 50.50Will the UN secretary-general send misogynistic heads rolling?
With his new strategy to achieve gender parity within United Nations’ staff, has Antonio Guterres revived the...
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Published in: 50.50‘I won’t be displaced again’: the fight to save London's latin market
Community members and traders mobilise to save a Seven Sisters market from regeneration plans that could transform...
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Published in: 50.50In pictures: life at London’s latin market, under threat from developers
Wandering around the market in Seven Sisters, it's clear: this is more than a collection of shops and restaurants,...
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Published in: 50.50How the 'business case' for gender equality sidelines human rights
Women’s rights at work are an investment in their dignity. If we want to talk about economic returns, let’s...
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Published in: 50.50It's up to you: why neoliberal feminism isn't feminism at all
Mainstream feminism in the US is easily digestible and always subordinate to demands of neoliberal economics. As a...
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Published in: 50.50Is the Philippines really the best country for female social entrepreneurs?
Social enterprises have helped empower women across the Philippines – but they need support to thrive.
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Published in: 50.50PR, profit and ‘empowering women’ in the garment industry
How can a global garment value chain that relies on the systemic devaluation of female labour be expected to fulfil...
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Published in: 50.50Quantity and quality: Part 1 on funding women’s rights
The first international women’s fund explores how funding women and girls translates (or doesn’t) into money for...
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Published in: 50.50Out of the box: Megan Prescott on Skins, bodybuilding and busting gender roles
Megan Prescott discusses her experiences of gender inequality, public scrutiny and subverting stereotypes as a young...
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Published in: 50.50Sex work: not prohibited, not permitted
Criminalization sets a context in which the range of human rights violations experienced by sex workers is...
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Published in: 50.50Fear and humiliation at the job centre
The lack of self-confidence among young women looking for a job in Britain, revealed in the ‘Work It Out’ report, is...
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Published in: 50.50Grunwick 40 years on: lessons from the Asian women strikers
The women who led the Grunwick dispute challenged not just the stereotypes of Asian women within British society,...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job